Monday, 9 June 2014

Spring was early this year! There is a little patch of woodland about a 10 minute drive from here. There is a part of it away from the 'official visitor paths' which we always try to visit because of the bluebells. Here is a short video I took of them. I love the birdsong on this!

Tuesday, 3 June 2014

We took our honeymoon in Jersey. For non-UK-ers, I mean one of The Channel Islands, between here and France, not the New Jersey that gets slagged off on US crime dramas :)

We stayed at a hotel calledLongville Manor. Click the link and have a peek! It was glorious.

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I don't have any photo's of the honeymoon to share, as we were burgled a month after we returned home. We lost everything of value, whether monetary or sentimental. All my jewellery was taken. None of it was costly, but to me, every piece told a story.

Our camera and laptops were taken, and these had our honeymoon photo's on. It also means, of course, that I lost about 4 years of other photo's. It all only hit me when I realised that I had lost all those pictures of Scooter, and the last video I took of him- just a week before he passed over. In that video he was belly up on cushions on his bench, sunbathing. He was purring as I rubbed his tummy. You would never have believed he be gone a week later- he only started to go down hill 2 days later... I had never published the video anywhere like here, or YouTube, as I had always been too upset to process it on my computer. I had only just thought about it, and thought yes, I'll do that, I can handle that now.

I had saved everything to Amazon Cloud- but when I next got online, I discovered that my files there had disappeared. If you save things to a cloud, please remember to check it regularly!!

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A few more pic's to cheer us up :)

I forgot to show this picture of our Ring Bearers, as carried up the aisle by Hazel, our Ring Bearers' Bearer. Bob has my ring on his arm, and Dilly has Kevin's on her snout.

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Doesn't she look every bit the princess! She said it was HER day, of course, and particularly enjoyed having a bigger tiara than me or Hazel.

*** Here's Hazel, the Ring Bearers' Bearer. Hazel is my God-daughter.

***This is Jo, Hazel's mum. Jo and I have known each other since we were 8 :)

***This book was one of our readings. I can't imagine who influenced us in this choice ;)

***The children in Kevin's class drew pictures for us to display:

Lots of people took a photo of this particular work of art. Maybe it's because Kevin bears a remarkable resemblance to Bradley Wiggins...

Monday, 2 June 2014

Over a year since I was last here. A lot has happened... Here is the biggest thing:

A cat appeared, and let me pick her up. She went to sleep on the cuff of my sleeve. She nestled down and snoozed... so she got into a lot of the photo's! I late found out that she lived at the venue and her name is Marmaduke. In this picture, guests are blowing bubbles over us, as confetti wasn't allowed.

Currently, Blogger won't upload any photo's on this blog, or my others. I've no idea why. I've tried everything suggested in their 'help' section. I've posted my latest journal pages and ATCs on my Facebook page, so if you're on facebook, please have a look; 'friend' me if you haven't already :)Blogger has been doing this for weeks.If any of you have any advice, please let me know!!!Helenaxx

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

I took some photo's of some of the stuff I've been doodling and scribbling in my 'journal'. It IS making me feel a little better, or well, not *better*, as such, maybe a little more in control. I feel something welling up, I reach for the pen and crayons. -Rather than it going around in my head and building up. Hard to explain. But getting it out on paper is a nice thing, even when what's written isn't nice.

THank you to everyone who sponsored me and helped me raise over £200 for Cancer Research! (sorry but no, I can't run again this year- I'm afraid last year's effort wreaked my back!!! It was great fun but- never again!! LOL!)

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